Current MA and PhD Students
The following are select sociology graduate students.
Amanda Bonesteel-Kratt
Email: aboneste@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Public Health, the Politics of Health, Political Science, Human Behavior, Misinformation Implications
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Kelly Duong
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Adverse Childhood Experiences Across the Life Course, Gender/Sex Differences in Health, Quantitative Research Methods
Advisor: Wei Zhang
Kotone Ishida
Email: kotonei@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Sociology, STS, Feminist STS, Gender, Japan
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Matthieu Kalua
Email: mkalua4@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Reproductive Violence, Sexual/Gender Based Violence, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Maternal Mental Health, Feminist Theory and Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Yuka Takatsuka Koitabashi
Email: yukak7@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Gender Inequality, Social Conformity, Work-Family Balance, Migration and Diaspora, and Cross-Cultural Research in Japan and Hawaiʻi
Advisor: Sun-Ki Chai
Jaeho Kook
Email: jkook@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Critical Theory of Technology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sociology of Sports, Globalization, Football (Soccer), Video Assistant Referee (VAR), Electronic Performance Tracking System (EPTS)
Advisor: Le Lin
S. M. Anowarul Kayes Shimul
Email: shimul@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, STS, Political Ecology, Sustainability
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Carlie Peterson-Mosher
Email: carlier@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Criminology, Deviance and Social Control, Gender, Feminism
Advisor: Katherine Irwin
Aya Shirayama
Email: ayashira@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Ethnicity, Identity, Diaspora, Food, Indigenous Sociology, Okinawans, Asia-Pacific, Qualitative Research
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Caprielle Woehr
Email: woehr@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Agriculture & Food, Community Formation, Qualitative Research
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Tingyan Zhu
Email: tzhu@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Food Studies, Economic and Organizational Sociology, Consumption, Tourism, China Studies, Human-Animal Studies, Qualitative Research
Advisor: Le Lin